Cape Town Launch of Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction Books LIVE (blog) The Book Lounge and MaThoko's Books & Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) are delighted to invite you to the launch of Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction.

The journey of self-discovery is a recurring theme in Francophone Maghrebi literature and film.

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The journey of self-discovery is a recurring theme in Francophone Maghrebi literature and film. Authors and directors place characters in a struggle against forces in both French and Maghrebi society, evoking various themes through which characters define themselves. While these characters embark on different paths in terms of their search for self-discovery, they prove that identities are not rigid. A multitude of factors contribute to

» Panel on “Sexual Discourses in the Zionist Project: Queer Politics and Liberation.” A Global Movement for Queer-Powered BDS

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By promoting gay rights as the endpoint of human rights, Israel obscures not only its obliteration of Palestine, but simultaneously silences queer voices who argue that their liberation is always already bound up with the liberation from any form of oppression. Palestinian and international (queer) activists argue that to achieve a radical equality queer politics has to be intrinsically anti-racist, anti-occupation, anti-sexist, and anti-classist.

In this panel, different speakers will talk about pinkwashing, queer politics, and Palestinian liberation. In conjunction, they will share their views on the use of sexuality in a larger context of Islamophobia, imperialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and settler-colonialism.

The time has come for the Government of Indonesia to State a Firm Position and Actions to End all Forms of Violence and Discriminations Against LGBTfile:///D:/Arus%20Pelangi/Press%20Release%20ICCPR%202013_ForumLGBTIQInd_Final.

As LGBT activists call for Obama to speak out against anti-gay laws in Africa, we discuss the potential fallouts of such diplomatic action

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AYANA: My opinion is a conflicted one. I think that it’s a dangerous liberal move to insist that Obama speak out when the naming of LGBT interests (in the US called “the gay agenda”) is so dismissive of actual individuals on the LGBTQ spectrum, in America or anywhere else. Obama could speak out against the new homophobic laws in Nigeria, but should also condemn laws in the US that have led to an increase in LGBTQ homeless youth, to increased incarceration of queer individuals, and laws/customs that shatter the support provided by chosen family structures, in favour of the insistence of state-by-state approved, mainstream gay marriages which limit federal and local support in healthcare, education, and employment. Speaking out would be nothing short of hypocritical, paternalistic and pinkwashing if he didn’t address America’s problems as on a spectrum of its own that is also flawed and a work in progress (to put it more than optimistically).

Identity Kenya is Kenya's premier and most read sexual and gender minorities news service and agency.

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The organisations said in a post on Facebook: "From being an event that celebrated political struggle and claimed space for all members of LGBT communities, Joburg Pride has become a capitalist and consumerist gay parade that takes place in a predominantly white and wealthy suburb, is sponsored by multinational corporations and businesses, and is an event that only the economically wealthy sections of LGBT and queer communities are able to fully participate in."

Harford said that she was unaware of the planned meeting and that it had played no part in the board's decision.

Last August, award-winning filmmaker Pratibha Parmar delivered a keynote address at FEMME Conference 2012: Pulling the Pieces Together, in Baltimore, Maryland. We are thrilled to offer here the text of her previously unpublished talk.

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The disapproval of my outward signs of femininity was so evident that literally overnight I stopped my love affair with red lipstick and painted nails, with lacey, frilly tops. Instead, I donned the proverbial dungarees and Doc Marten boots. I tried to become androgynous in order to fit in with what was seemingly acceptable to white, middle-class feminists while my own reality as a lesbian of color was buried deep. Needless to say, I wasn’t particularly successful at performing a soft butch androgyny. On me it was bland and boring. Androgyny and butch was what I desired, not what I wanted to be.

Gender Talents: A Special Address, convened by Carlos Motta at Tate Modern, presents an international group of thinkers, activists, and artists exploring models and strategies to transform the ways in which society perversely defines and regulates...

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